. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. MAIDENHAIR FERN hair of North America bears a cluster of up-right, brown, shiny, wiry stalks, upon thetop of which the graceful fronds expand hor-izontally. In some cultivated species thesefronds are exceedingly delicate, and in all,the rounded, scalloped leaflets are charac-teristic. MAID OF ORLEANS. See Joan of Arc. MAIMING, a statutory offense consistingof permanent injury wilfully inflicted on menor animals. When on human beings it
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. MAIDENHAIR FERN hair of North America bears a cluster of up-right, brown, shiny, wiry stalks, upon thetop of which the graceful fronds expand hor-izontally. In some cultivated species thesefronds are exceedingly delicate, and in all,the rounded, scalloped leaflets are charac-teristic. MAID OF ORLEANS. See Joan of Arc. MAIMING, a statutory offense consistingof permanent injury wilfully inflicted on menor animals. When on human beings it isknown as mayhem (which see). Anotherlegal term for maiming is mutilation. Theoffense is designated as a felony (which see). MAIN, mine, a river of Germany whichrises in the Fichtelgebirge, a mountain chainin the northern part of Bavaria. The Mainflows in a general westerly direction for 300miles and joins the Rhine a little above thetown of Mainz. For about 200 miles fromits mouth it is navigable. By means of theLudwig Canal it affords through navigationto the Danube, and between Mainz andFrankfort it has been .AINE, mane, called the Pine TreeState because of its widespread forests ofpine, is the largest of the New Englandstates and the most northeasterly state of theUnion. It touches two Canadian Brunswick on the northeast and east,and Quebec on the northwest. The entireeastern frontier of New Hampshire adjoinsMaines western boundary line; the easternboundary is the Atlantic Ocean. Maine liesin approximately the same latitude as thesouthern half of France, but it has a morerigorous climate. Area and Population. The extreme lengthof the state is 303 miles, and the extremewidth is 212 miles. It has a total area of33,040 square miles, making it a little largerthan South Carolina and a little smaller thanIndiana. It is the thirty-eighth state of theUnion in size. The coast in a direct line fromEastport to a point opposite Portsmouth is218 miles, but bec
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